Congratulations to our new Master of Surgery graduate, Nicole Garcia

Dr Nicole Garcia, now a plastic surgery registrar at PeterMac 

Congratulations to Dr Nicole Garcia, who has been awarded a Master of Surgery degree on completion of her thesis, "Graft-host interactions in full-thickness wounds using mouse models". She was supervised by Dr Shiva Akbarzadeh and Dr Cheng Lo in the Department of Surgery.

Little is known about the mechanism by which skin grafting accelerates wound healing. Dr Garcia writes,  "We investigated this using an autologous full-thickness and a synthetic graft in a novel mouse model.

Congratulations to Casey Lo for his Master of Surgery award!

Congratulations to Mr Casey Lo, who has been awarded the degree of Master of Surgery.

Casey’s thesis "Right ventricular failure in left ventricular assisted patients" was accepted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree by the Graduate Research Steering Committee on Tuesday 9 December 2014.

Casey was enrolled through the Department of Surgery and was supervised by Drs Silvana Marasco and Deirdre Murphy.